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BBC News - Matilda musical wins four theatre audience awards
Feb 27, 2012 true religion
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The cheapest ticket is £15. Don’t buy that one.”
End Quote One Man, Two Guvnors writer Richard Bean 20 February 2012 Last updated at 10:57 GMT Matilda musical wins four theatre audience awards By Tim Masters Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBC News
Roald Dahl adaptation Matilda the Musical was the big winner at the audience-voted Whatsonstage.com awards, taking home four prizes.
The RSC production also won best newcomer for its songwriter, comedian Tim Minchin, at Sunday’s ceremony.
Director Matthew Warchus said the four children who played the title role were “its trump card and its heart”.
National Theatre transfer One Man, Two Guvnors scooped three awards, including best actor in a play for James Corden.
The slapstick hit was also named best new comedy at the 12th annual Whatonstage.com awards show, held at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre.
‘Reduced to tears’
Matilda the Musical, about a girl with extraordinary powers, is proving to be a big hit with West End audiences.
“Those four Matildas who perform are a real problem for me,Discount Tory Burch Shoes, because each time I watch the show I’m reduced to tears,” said Warchus.
“So while I hope it has a long and healthy run, it’s not very good for my emotional stability.”
Corden, who accepted his prize at the glitzy ceremony dressed in jeans, joked: “I hosted this a few years ago - it wasn’t this posh!
“I share this [award] with every other actor in our show,” he went on. “They are all brilliant and there’s no such thing as best, but I’m pleased that some of you thought it might have been me.”
War Horse, another National Theatre transfer, was named best West End show. One of its full-size horse puppets was brought on stage as a “surprise guest”.
The National’s musical London Road - about the 2006 murders of prostitutes in Ipswich - won a best ensemble performance prize for its 11-strong cast, who play 52 roles between them.
The National notched up seven awards in total, including a best director win for Danny Boyle for his production of Frankenstein.
The sell-out play, which opened a year ago, saw Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating in the roles of Frankenstein and the Creature.
Ben Brown’s Three Days in May, about political manoeuvring in the early days of World War II, was best new play.
In the musicals categories, Ghost won three prizes including a best actor honour for Richard Fleeshman.
The former Coronation Street star flew in from rehearsing the show on Broadway to pick up his award.
Shrek stars Amanda Holden and Nigel Harman were named best actress and best supporting actor in a musical respectively.
Holden - who has resumed filming Britain’s Got Talent after giving birth to her second child - received her award from Simon Cowell in a video clip.
The actress said she had “had a ball” playing Princess Fiona in the West End staging of the 2001 animated film.
“Last year was a bumpy old year, and Shrek literally saved me,” said the 41-year-old.
The night’s other winners included Vanessa Redgrave, voted best actress for her performance in Driving Miss Daisy.
Redgrave appeared opposite James Earl Jones in the show, which also won the award for best play revival.
The reunion of Doctor Who stars David Tennant and Catherine Tate in Much Ado About Nothing was crowned both theatre event of the year and best Shakespearean production.
“Thank you for making a play written in 1598 the theatre event of the year,” said its director Josie Rourke. “I think William Shakespeare would probably be quite pleased.”
Tate also won the best supporting actress in a play prize for the National’s Season’s Greetings. The actress, who is filming in Los Angeles, made her acceptance speech via video.
Both Ghost and Matilda had gone into the awards with nine nominations apiece.
Matilda has scooped several theatrical prizes since it opened in the West End in November, including best musical at the Evening Standard theatre awards.
As well as its best new musical and best newcomer prizes on Sunday, it also took awards for its set design and choreography.
“I’ve been around for a bit but newcomer implies that I like doing new stuff and that the industry expects me to keep doing stuff in the London theatre world, which I really hope I can do,” said Tim Minchin as he accepted his accolade.
One Man, Two Guvnors was the runaway winner for best new comedy, having received 55% of the votes cast.
Richard Bean’s 1960s version of Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters is in its final week at the Adelphi Theatre with the original cast and will shortly move to Broadway.
A new cast will continue in London at the Theatre Royal Haymarket - something Bean referred to in his deadpan acceptance speech.
“I got a phone call this morning from the National,” he told the audience. “They said, ‘Can you mention the show is going down the road to the Haymarket?’
“They wouldn’t do that to Alan Bennett.
“The cheapest ticket is £15,” he went on. “Don’t buy that one. Unless you like staring at marble close-up, listening to a radio play.”
More than 70,000 people took part in the voting process for this year’s awards, a rise of 55% on 2011.
The awards show - which concluded with a performance by Queen guitarist Brian May and singer Kerry Ellis - was hosted by comedians Alan Davies and Jenny Eclair and actress Sheridan Smith.
Full list of winners
Best Actress in a Play: Vanessa Redgrave - Driving Miss Daisy
Best Actor in a Play: James Corden - One Man, Two Guvnors
Best Supporting Actress in a Play: Catharine Tate - Season’s Greetings
Best Supporting Actor in a Play: Oliver Chris - One Man, Two Guvnors
Best Actress in a Musical: Amanda Holden - Shrek the Musical
Best Actor in a Musical: Richard Fleeshman - Ghost the Musical
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical: Hannah Waddingham - The Wizard of Oz
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical: Nigel Harman - Shrek the Musical
Best Ensemble Performance: London Road
Best Solo Performance: Kerry Ellis - Anthems: The Concert
Best Takeover in a Role: Alfie Boe - Les Miserables
Best New Play: Three Days in May - Ben Brown
Best New Comedy: One Man, Two Guvnors - Richard Bean
Best New Musical: Matilda the Musical
Best Play Revival: Driving Miss Daisy
Best Musical Revival: The Wizard of Oz
Best Shakespearean Production: Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham’s)
Best Director: Danny Boyle - Frankenstein
Best Set Designer: Rob Howell - Ghost the Musical
Best Lighting Designer: Hugh Vanstone - Ghost the Musical
Best Choreographer: Peter Darling - Matilda the Musical
London Newcomer of the Year: Tim Minchin - Matilda the Musical
Best Off-West End Production: The Riots (Tricycle)
Best Regional Production: Sweeney Todd (Chichester Festival Theatre)
Best West End Show: War Horse
Theatre Event of the Year: David Tennant and Catherine Tate reuniting in Much Ado About Nothing
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Several unimpeachable icons of Brit style (David Hockney, #47; Bryan Ferry, #36) as well as a few designers (Christopher Bailey, left, #33; and the not-quite-British Tom Ford, #7) made the cut. Ford’s protégé of sorts, Nicholas Hoult, star of A Single Man and of Ford’s recent campaigns, clocks in at #3. And at #1? Nowhere Boy star Aaron Johnson, more familiar to American tabloid audiences than movie audiences: The 20-year-old proposed to director Sam Taylor-Wood, 43, shortly after wrapping the Lennon biopic.
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BBC News - Baftas 2012 France takes on Hollywood on British turf
Feb 22, 2012 Ed Hardy
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End Quote Asif Kapadia Senna director 13 February 2012 Last updated at 04:28 GMT Baftas 2012: France takes on Hollywood on British turf By Tim Masters Entertainment correspondent, BBC News
Hollywood turned out in force at the Baftas on Sunday, but it was a French film that dominated Britain’s most prestigious film awards.
The loudest screams on the Baftas red carpet were for George Clooney and Brad Pitt. But it was silence that came out on top.
Silent film The Artist had led the Baftas race with 12 nominations. Its seven wins now make it a firm favourite for the Oscars in two weeks’ time.
This was the latest stage in an extraordinary journey for the black-and-white film - directed by Michel Hazanavicius - that first made its debut at Cannes last May.
It was there that its star Jean Dujardin won the best actor prize and his canine sidekick Uggie won the jocular ‘Palm Dog’ award.
Dujardin (along with his translator) has been a regular fixture on red carpets during awards season, often playing up for the cameras.
Backstage at the Baftas, he jokily referred to his director as “Michel Hazana-genius”.
On the British front it was a good night for Cold War drama Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, starring Gary Oldman.
The John le Carre adaptation was named best British film and also took home the adapted screenplay prize.
Oldman had been widely expected to receive the best actor prize. But that went to The Artist’s Dujardin, a win that took some by surprise.
There were no surprises in the best actress category though, where Meryl Streep was rewarded for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.
After collecting her Bafta, Streep revealed how playing the former Prime Minister had helped improve her interview technique.
“I learned how to control the interview, which is something I never really could understand how to do,” she told reporters.
“But she did it masterfully. She, with a command of her breath and her convictions, would launch into the most amazing sort of labyrinthine argument.
“She would go on to a point where you thought she couldn’t go on any further, because she is going to have to take a breath, and still [she would continue] - ‘don’t interrupt me, don’t interrupt me, let me say one more thing!’
“And I thought: that is the secret.”
Record breaker
Earlier in the evening Christopher Plummer became the oldest person to win an acting Bafta, beating a record that had been held by Driving Miss Daisy star Jessica Tandy.
The 82-year-old was named best supporting actor for his role in Beginners, as an elderly father who comes out as gay after the death of his wife.
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“I think The Help is resonating with people because it is about regular people, and we can all identify with one of those characters,” she told the BBC backstage.
“We always like to root for the underdog, and our film is about that very thing and women finding their voices.”
Ignored by the Oscars but rewarded by Bafta was Senna - Asif Kapadia’s film about the life and career of Brazilian Formula One champion Ayrton Senna.
The film, which has scooped up prizes throughout the awards season, won both the documentary and editing Baftas.
“We did not want to make a film that was just for F1 fans. It had to become the film that people who can’t stand sport go to see,” explained Kapadia.
“It had to be about the character, and his charisma. Senna happens to be a driver, but it’s actually about his journey in life.”
So where does all this leave the Oscars, now less than a fortnight away?
For the last three years, Bafta has picked the film that went on to win best picture at the Academy Awards.
Thomas Langmann, the producer of The Artist, therefore has every reason to be confident when he heads for the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on 26 February.
Director Martin Scorsese, who picked up the Bafta fellowship and whose film Hugo has 11 Oscar nods to The Artist’s 10, admitted it was a film he “admired greatly”.
Christopher Plummer and Octavia Spencer are already hot Oscar favourites, while Rango’s victory in the Bafta animation category bodes well for an Academy win.
Yet spare a thought for the films that didn’t make it to Bafta glory. Despite six nominations there was nothing for My Week with Marilyn.
And there were no awards either for Shame, The Descendants, Drive and We Need to Talk About Kevin, which all walked away from the Royal Opera House in London empty-handed.
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Foreign students given unearned degrees at North Dakota college
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(Reuters) Hundreds of foreign students in a joint degree program at a North Dakota state university were admitted despite lacking credentials and awarded degrees without completing coursework, an audit of the program has showed.
According to a review of the procedures in place for certain international programs at Dickinson State University, just 10 of the 410 foreign students awarded joint degrees since 2003 actually fulfilled all required course work.
The majority of the degrees in question were granted to Chinese students, the remainder to Russian students, according to the report.
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The audit conducted by the North Dakota State University System and the State Board of Higher Education showed “seriously lacking controls and oversight” of these international degree programs.
“Several process level controls have been waived or controls that were once in place have been intentionally overridden or ignored, threatening the overall compliance of the program,” the report said.
The school, situated on the edge of the North Dakota Badlands with about 2,700 undergraduate students, was cited for accepting students into the international programs who did not meet minimum admission requirements, lacked official transcripts as part of the application process and could not demonstrate English proficiency.
According to the audit results, the school did not verify students were completing general education classes and degrees were awarded with out sufficient credits completed.
Of the 816 students enrolled in the special international programs since 2003, the review found 743 files in question, the results showed.
Stopping the programs, reworking policies and procedures, accepting only official-sealed transcripts and reviewing agreements with foreign student recruiters were among the recommendations presented to Dickinson State.
The school said in a statement it would be working with the North Dakota University System and State Board of Higher Education to ensure future compliance.
(Reporting By Lauren Keiper; editing by Dan Burns)
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